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  • Glyph.00440
  • Strokes: 05
  • jlpt-N2 grade_08


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甲
甲

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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
コウ ・ カン ・ カ
KO U ・ KA N ・ KA
Kun-yomi
きのえ
ki no e

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Meanings of elements
PLUGGING ORIFICE with ROD
…or: SCREWING in ORIFICE with LONG ROD
…or: DOWNWARD THRUSTING PENIS through CAVITY
「Downward thrusting」inside a「cavity」that perhaps describes one method of penetrating ARMOR, the defensive OUTER SHELL of a person, animal, seed, or object…or in ancient China, the INSTEP of a crushed foot used to wrap around a hard rod, a SEED CASING. Initial germination is the first step of seed growth after seeds are buried in some sort of soil (and these elements are also a「rod in muck orifice」). Normally, a root tip appears first, extending and PUSHING DOWNWARD to anchor the plant and absorb moisture and nutrients. PUSHING DOWNWARD with elements「downward thrusting」while「plugging a wet orifice」or「cavity」of some sort, such as a bloody wound, or the instep of a concubine. HIGH PITCH, STEEP SLOPE, a STEEP ANGLE of something driving, thrusting downward into something else.
「Thrusting down」or a「rod plugging orifice」referred to a GRADE-A, 1st RATE experience. The so-called「ten heavenly stems」(十天干) all have something to do with a male erection or the application thereof, which is exactly why they are called screwing, full and heavenly and stems: 1 甲, 2 乙, 3 丙, 4 丁, 5 戊, 6 己, 7 庚, 8 辛, 9 壬, 10 癸.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: first of the ten heavenly stems 十天干 ; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit (old)
Japanese EDRDG: armor, high (voice), A grade, first class, former, instep, carapace
Unihan extended: armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem

Used within names (nanori)
かぶと ・ き ・ まさ ・ まさる

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.



Japanese vocabulary: 179 entries


Chinese usage: 182 entries


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